Yuanli Cai* (蔡远利)
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2014, 35, 1430-1435
An acceleration effect and selective monomer addition during RAFT copolymerization of the oppositely-charged ionic monomers in dilute aqueous solution at 25 °C are reported. The reaction is conducted using a non-ionic water-soluble polymer as a macromolecular chain transfer agent under visible light irradiation. A fast iterative polymerization can be induced, even in dilute solution, by the favorable ionic interactions and in situ self-assembly of zwitterionic growing chains. Selelctive monomer addition is achieved in the statistical copolymerization due to the ion-pairing of the oppositely-charged monomers, such as precisely the same reaction rates at a 1:1 of monomer ratio, otherwise a faster reaction of the minor monomer component over the major one. These behaviors open up an avenue towards the rapid synthesis of sequence-controlled zwitterionic polyelectrolytes that can satisfy the demands of emerging biological applications.
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//onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/marc.201400153/abstract
